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"after all the package manager is really just keeping a database of files and unpacking archives onto the disk." err..... what
by purplezooey 9y ago
"after all the package manager is really just keeping a database of files and unpacking archives onto the disk."
err..... what
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoWhat what? That's more or less what a package manager does; take archives ("packages"), unpack them into the system ("install"), and then keep a database of what archives are unpacked and what files each one owns. In practice there's a lot added to that (pulling the archives from a central repo, dependency resolution, searching, managing config files...), but the simple case is barely more than tar.